Feedback from a Film Professional

A day was aranged by our teachers for professionals to come into the school and give us feedback about our products. So for film we had 'Oscar Stringer' come in who is a local film maker, we also had two guys come in from UWE ( University of West England) to judge andgive feedback about our print work. So for me I had my 5:50 minute film looked at by 'Oscar Stringer' and my two ancillary tasks; A Poster & Magazine Review, looked at by 'Steve Priddell' & 'Rowland Cowley', from UWE.

Film feedback:

The first and most big criticism that I received was that there was a scene shot outside and when a key speech came along you couldn't hear it very well due to the cameras microphone picking up a gust of wind. So from this I decided to change the scene to an indoor location and this then lead me to changing the script so that the story would then make sense. So I re-worked the storyboard and script to come to what it is now, this then leads onto another improvement that I made after feedback.

I worked long and hard on the script but that was a downside because what happened is the story was too complex and hard to keep up with in such a small time period, so I chopped a side story out of the film and replaced them with shorter lined shots and location shots.

Magazine Feedback:

The two guys that came from UWE liked my magazine review a lot and said that the layout itself was good, so it had nothing to improve upon for that. Although it lacked on colour co-ordination so I changed the colour scheme around until it fitted together nicely.

Poster Feedback:

There was only one major change that I had to make in my poster and that was adding stars in the background so that it looked as if the character was actually in space. This effect was eventually done using Photoshop.